Kanye West - Flashing Lights (Feat. Dwele)

Scan through any hip-hop blog, or switch on the radio and it won't be long before Sir Kanye West is mentioned in some form or other, so indemand is the producer, now three albums deep into his career.

'Flashing Lights', easily one of the best tracks from the producer-slash-rapper, is more of the club-hop we've come to expect from the 'Graduation' period output, but in this case delivered in a sinister and stripped downbeat form - spook-hop?

It's the chill-out after the hyperactivity of 'Stronger', so don't expect any wild anthems and club vibe party tracks, West instead meddles with classical-meets-electronica, rapping in a slow-flow over orchestral strings and rave synths, jerking at low-velocity.

He's not reinventing the wheel, nope, just making one of those tracks that weirdly has you hooked in seconds. But when a figure like West reaches this hip-hop royalty-like status, it's nice to see they can still produce something so high-calibre.